A lively off-shoot regarding homeopathic medicine bloomed in the
How do i make my cum taste better? thread, so I thought I'd copy the salient bits over here. I'm enjoying the debate, please continue.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
100% herbal formula from the website.
AKA unregulated crap that most likely does nothing.
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Originally Posted by Redlemon
 I hate hearing the phrase "It's 100% natural, so there are no side effects" on those damned herbal radio ads. Hey pal, hemlock is also 100% natural - you try it first, OK? |
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Actually I got a bit of a education lately on that. This doesn't apply to herbal supplements but 'homeopathic' medicine.
I used to think based on context that homeopathic was a nice sounding buzzword for herbal. I was wrong. Homeopathic is just stupid (they dilute real drugs to the point that the odds of finding one molecule of the drug in the pill is less than winning the lottery, twice in a row). Its based on a very old and very bogus theory that just doesn't work, ever. But since they contain no real drugs they CAN claim to be 100% side effect free.
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Originally Posted by oFia
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
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Originally Posted by oFia
Heh. Obviously a credible source. Sorry I even bothered to post my first link.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You have absolutely no idea what and who you are talking about, plus I checked out the site and it says the same thing Randi does, only it pretends it works. It doesn't' even qualify as voodoo, sorry, its just plain assinine.
I'm glad you posted the link as it let me talk about this. I really draw the line at 'bad medicine', this shit can HURT people. I might be against silly mysticism as a rule, and I wish people were better educated about such things, but once you add medicine to it, the gloves are off.
Its ONLY and I mean ONLY value is as a placebo.
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I think that Ustwo is correct in his definition of homeopathic medicine, whereas oFia is talking about holistic medicine. Unfortunately, the terms have been scrambled over time.